Tag: Mobile Technology
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Wireless downtown?
It seems that Edmonton is looking at blanket WiFi coverage downtown. That would be interesting as the University is setting up shop there – though in what is arguably the worst building for WiFi reception (coolest possible in many other ways though).
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Macbooks are here!
Macbook has arrived as the replacement for the iBook. It looks like they are in black and white. It looks like it’s time to upgrade a few machines at home and work.
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Intel’s Kinderlappy
According to MIT’s Technology Review, it looks like Intel is coming out with a $400 laptop aimed at the third world as well. Named “Eduwise”, these machines are aimed at closing the digital divide. Between these laptops, phones and UMPCs, ubiquitous computing is becoming ever more the reality.
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Phones, Time and PDAs – some support
I found a couple of articles today that provide some support to technology being able to help teachers work more efficiently and that PDAs can still be useful, but more as visualizers than full out machines. I blogged about both these points earlier (here and here) and though these articles don’t line up exactly, they…
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Have PDAs in schools missed the boat?
I remember, as many of us do, when laptops were too heavy to truck around all of the time and phones were amazing when they had a 100 slot phone book. It was in this environment that PDAs seemed to emerge. They could do the basic note taking that many people wanted laptops for and…